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Re: 🇳🇿 Parliament Leaves Xwitter

From kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey)
Newsgroups comp.misc, nz.general
Subject Re: 🇳🇿 Parliament Leaves Xwitter
Date 2026-02-27 18:51 -0500
Organization Former users of Netcom shell (1989-2000)
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Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?=  <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
>On Fri, 27 Feb 2026 03:22:06 +0100, Vanadium wrote:
>
>> There is no reason goverments should have social media acounts at
>> all ...
>
>Those of us who live in democracies do prefer our elected
>representatives to keep us in the loop from time to time over what
>theyre doing in our name.

Two different things: the government itself and elected representatives.
I'm happy for my senator or mayor to have a social media account to talk
about what they are doing with my tax money.  I'm not sure I am happy about 
individual government agencies to be promoting themselves via social media.

On the gripping hand it's nice to see things like solar weather reports
from NOAA and announcements about NASA launches coming out via social media
since that's where people look today.
--scott


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🇳🇿 Parliament Leaves Xwitter Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-02-20 06:37 +0000
  Re: 🇳🇿 Parliament Leaves Xwitter Marco Moock <mm@dorfdsl.de> - 2026-02-20 16:17 +0100
    Re: 🇳🇿 Parliament Leaves Xwitter Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-02-20 23:19 +0000
  Re: 🇳🇿 Parliament Leaves Xwitter Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-02-24 03:48 +0000
    Re: ?? Parliament Leaves Xwitter Vanadium <administrator@pyrogen.net> - 2026-02-27 03:22 +0100
      Re: 🇳🇿 Parliament Leaves Xwitter Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-02-27 03:01 +0000
        Re: 🇳🇿 Parliament Leaves Xwitter Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2026-02-27 08:28 +0000
        Re: 🇳🇿 Parliament Leaves Xwitter kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2026-02-27 18:51 -0500
        Re: ?? Parliament Leaves Xwitter Vanadium <administrator@pyrogen.net> - 2026-03-08 00:40 +0100

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